The Remote Team built a PPE issue register

“The password is really long.”— Daniel, The Remote Team

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since May

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

deployed every time Petra remembers

Responsible:

Olivier, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €574k per year, alive 306x longer than intended, 63 users.